xLIDAR Is A Merry-Go-Round Of Time-Of-Flight Sensors
[JRodrigo]’s xLIDAR project is one of those ideas that seemed so attractively workable that it went directly to a PCB prototype without doing much stopping along the way. The concept was to mount a...
View ArticleR/C Rocket-Beest Burns Up Fuses Out There Alone
We’re beginning to think the “S” in [Jeremy S Cook] stands for strandbeest. He’ll be the talk of the 4th of July picnic once he brings out his latest build—a weaponized, remote-controlled strandbeest...
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Handmade Robot Brings Stop Motion to Life
Stop motion animation is often called a lost art, as doing it (or at least, doing it well) is incredibly difficult and time consuming. Every detail on the screen, no matter how minute, has to be placed...
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The BBC Computer Literacy Project From The 1980s Is Yours To Browse
In the early 1980s there was growing public awareness that the microcomputer revolution would have a significant effect on everybody’s lives, and there was a brief period in which anything remotely...
View ArticleGyrotourbillion Blesses The Eyes, Hard to Say
Clock movements are beautifully complex things. Made up of gears and springs, they’re designed to tick away and keep accurate time. Unfortunately, due to the vagaries of the universe, various sources...
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Sonar in Your Hand
Sonar measures distance by emitting a sound and clocking how long it takes the sound to travel. This works in any medium capable of transmitting sound such as water, air, or in the case of FingerPing,...
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DEXTER Has the Precision To Get The Job Done
Robotic arms – they’re useful, a key part of our modern manufacturing economy, and can also be charming under the right circumstances. But above all, they are prized for being able to undertake...
View ArticleDDL-4 Is A Visually Pleasing Modular CPU
Today’s CPUs are so advanced that they might as well be indistinguishable from magic, right? Wrong! Fundamentally, modern CPUs can be understood logically like any other technology, it’s just that...
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PCB Holder Quick-fix Turns Out To Be Big Improvement
When something needs improving, most hacks often make a small tweak to address a problem without changing how things really work. Other hacks go a level deeper, and that’s what [Felix Rusu] did with...
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Heartwatch Monitors Your Ticker
The heart! A pump of the most fantastical kind, it is capable of operating for decades without rest. It’s responsible for supplying vital oxygen to the body’s subsystems, and can be readily monitored...
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Nintendo Switch Gets Internal Trinket Hardmod
If you haven’t been following the Nintendo Switch hacking scene, the short version of the story is that a vulnerability was discovered that allows executing code on all versions of the Switch hardware...
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Raspberry Pi Zero Stepper Driver, First of Many Modules
The Raspberry Pi in general (and the Zero W model in particular) are wonderful pieces of hardware, but they’re not entirely plug-and-play when it comes to embedded applications. The user is on the...
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Hackaday Links: July 1, 2018
Remember when computer mice didn’t have scroll wheels? The greatest mouse of all time, the Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer 3.0, is back in production. This mouse was released in 2003, before the...
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Electronics Manufacturers React To China Trade Tariffs
Mere weeks ago, the United States announced it was set to impose a 25% tariff on over 800 categories of Chinese goods. These tariffs include nearly every component that goes into the manufacture of...
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Spy Tech: How an Apollo Capsule Landed in Michigan after a Layover in the USSR
There’s an Apollo module on display in Michigan and its cold-war backstory is even more interesting than its space program origins. Everyone who visits the Van Andel Museum Center in Grand Rapids,...
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Video Quick-Bit: The Things That Move Robots
[embedded content] Magenta Strongheart returns for a look at some of the coolest robotic entries from this year’s Hackaday Prize. Each of these answered the challenge for modular designs that will...
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Driftwood Binary Clock Is No Hollow Achievement
It’s about time we had another awesome clock post around here. [Mattaw] has liked binary clocks since he was 0 and decided to make one in stunning fashion by using driftwood, nature’s drillable,...
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OpenDeck Makes Spinning Your Own MIDI Controller Easy
These days, MIDI controllers are just plain cool. There are a million of them out there, and they’re all dressed to the nines in flashing LEDs and sporting swag like USB MIDI interfaces and sliders...
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A Cartoon-ifying Camera for Instant Absurdism
We take photographs as a way to freeze moments in time and to capture the details that get blurred by our unreliable memories. There is little room for interpretation, and this is kind of the whole...
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Philo Farnsworth, RCA, and the Battle for Television
The parenthood of any invention of consequence is almost never cut and dried. The natural tendency to want a simple story that’s easy to tell — Edison invented the light bulb, Bell invented the...
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